August 11th 07, 12:44 AM
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OT Interesting Note
"Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote in message
news 
Kevin Childers wrote:
Spoke to one of HPs Road Warriors today. Helped him get set-up for some
sales event on the road and what not. He (an reportedly his coworkers)
are
really happy with their brand new HP laptops. No surprise there, given
every sales guy loves a new toy, but the when I asked about the OS, it
wasn't VISTA. He said all of their new laptops are using XP. Sort of
makes
you wonder. Is it a commentary on the learning curve for the sales
staff,
simplicity and compatibility for the IT staff, or a negative commentary
on
the current state of VISTA?
It's a reflection of the fact that most corporate networks are very
reluctant to migrate to Vista at this time. We just got 10 D520's and they
have XP. You can see on the Dell web site that many/most of the business
offerings have XP as well as Vista.
Like it or not, new OS's will always have problems with legacy hardware
and software. For consumers, this can be manageable In a corporate
environment, it's no small thing to have to upgrade even one application.
In many cases, it's just not possible. What is an acceptable cost to a
consumer is not to a corporation. Try multiplying that $40 upgrade cost by
100 or 1,000 or even 10,000.... Add to that the manpower/hardware costs to
do the upgrades and it becomes *VERY* expensive *VERY* fast...
I support a small Hospice in upstate NY. We have two critical applications
that the vendors will not support on Vista.
Bottom line is that corporate acceptance of Vista is glacial compared to
the consumer market....
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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
Also look at the options, many consumer machines only offer VISTA as an OS
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